Gene Wolfe (1931–2019)
Autore di Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun
Sull'Autore
Gene Wolfe was born in New York City on May 7, 1931. He dropped out of Texas A&M University during his junior year and was drafted into the Army to fight in the Korean War. After the war, he received a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston. He worked as an industrial mostra altro engineer for Procter and Gamble, where he developed the machine that cooks the dough used to make Pringles potato chips. He was an editor of the trade journal Plant Engineering from 1972 to 1984 before retiring to become a full-time writer. He wrote more than 30 books during his lifetime including The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, The Book of the New Sun, and The Land Across. He received the Campbell Memorial Award, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, the Locus Award four times, and the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award two times each. In 1996, he was given the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007 and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012. He died after a long battle with heart disease on April 14, 2019 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Cory Doctorow (2005 Nebula Awards), cropped
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Opere di Gene Wolfe
A Cabin on the Coast 12 copie
The Detective of Dreams 7 copie
The Map 6 copie
The Arimaspian Legacy 6 copie
The Cat 6 copie
Procreation 5 copie
Sob in the Silence 5 copie
Straw [short story] 5 copie
Bloodsport 5 copie
Petting Zoo {short story} 5 copie
The Horars Of War 5 copie
Hunter Lake 5 copie
Pulp Cover 5 copie
Lord of the Land [short fiction] 5 copie
Castaway [short story] 4 copie
Shields of Mars {short story} 4 copie
The Magic Animal 4 copie
The Nebraskan and the Nereid 4 copie
Queen 4 copie
Silhouette 4 copie
Viewpoint 4 copie
Golden City Far 4 copie
Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? 4 copie
The Lost Pilgrim 4 copie
In the House of Gingerbread 4 copie
Graylord Man's Last Words 4 copie
The Little Stranger 4 copie
Of Soil & Climate {short story} 3 copie
Copperhead 3 copie
The Other Dead Man 3 copie
From the Cradle {short story} 3 copie
At the Point of Capricorn 3 copie
The Dead Man 3 copie
Under Hill 3 copie
Bea and Her Bird Brother 3 copie
A Fish Story 3 copie
Suzanne Delage 3 copie
Lukora 3 copie
Mathoms From The Time Closet 3 copie
The Tree Is My Hat {short story} 3 copie
Green Glass 3 copie
Kevin Malone 3 copie
Rattler {short story} 3 copie
Mary Beatrice Smoot Friarly, SPV 3 copie
The Headless Man 3 copie
Talk of Mandrakes 3 copie
Donovan Sent Us 3 copie
Mute 3 copie
THE GUNNER'S MATE 2 copie
Build-a-Bear 2 copie
The Waif 2 copie
The Rubber Bend {short story} 2 copie
The Old Woman In the Young Woman 2 copie
Calamity Warps {short story} 2 copie
Black Shoes {short story} 2 copie
The Fat Magician {short story} 2 copie
Try and Kill It {short story} 2 copie
King Rat 2 copie
The Night Chough 2 copie
The Recording {short story} 2 copie
Slaves of Silver {short story} 2 copie
The Walking Sticks {short story} 2 copie
Peritonitis 2 copie
The Peace Spy {short story} 2 copie
Morning-Glory {short story} 2 copie
The Case Of The Vanishing Ghost 2 copie
Robot's Story 2 copie
Sweet Forest Maid {short story} 2 copie
My Book {short story} 2 copie
Thag {short story} 2 copie
The Death of Hyle {short story} 2 copie
Loco Parentis 2 copie
House of Ancestors {short story} 2 copie
A Cidadela do Autarca Livro 1 1 copia
A Espada do Lictor Livro 1 1 copia
A Sombra do Torturador Livro 1 1 copia
The Devil in a Forests 1 copia
House Fires 1 copia
A Espada do Lictor 1 copia
The Sea of Memory {short story} 1 copia
Frostfree {short story} 1 copia
Date Due {short story} 1 copia
Śmierć doktora wyspy 1 copia
Remembrance To Come 1 copia
From Knight 1 copia
Procreation I Creation 1 copia
Procreation II Re-creation 1 copia
(all) 1 copia
In the Old Hotel {short story} 1 copia
Pandora Holly Hollander 1 copia
Soldiers of the Mist 1 copia
The Book of the New Sun Volume I: The Shadow of the Torturer. Volume II: The Claw of the Conciliator (1981) 1 copia
Castle View 1 copia
Bifrost n° 111 1 copia
A Solar Labyrinth {short story} 1 copia
Constipating Science Fiction 1 copia
Houston, 1943 {short story} 1 copia
The Monday Man {short story} 1 copia
How I Got Three Zip Codes 1 copia
The Hour Of The Sheep 1 copia
Unrequited Love 1 copia
The Card 1 copia
Easter Sunday 1 copia
John K. Price 1 copia
The Eleventh City {short story} 1 copia
Walt Disney's Lady 1 copia
Josh 1 copia
Why I Was Hanged 1 copia
Wolfer {short story} 1 copia
The Wrapper {short story} 1 copia
In the Mountains {short story} 1 copia
On the Train {short story} 1 copia
Last Day {short story} 1 copia
Civis Laputus Sum {short story} 1 copia
Checking Out {short story} 1 copia
Innocent 1 copia
Redbeard {short story} 1 copia
Cherry Jubilee {short story} 1 copia
Alphabet {short story} 1 copia
The Flag {short story} 1 copia
Westwind {short story} 1 copia
Beech Hill {short story} 1 copia
Gene" 1 copia
Opere correlate
999 Racconti Inediti per un millennio da Brivido (1999) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 616 copie
Millemondi Inverno 2009: Il meglio della SF /II - L'Olimpo dei classici moderni (2005) — Collaboratore — 367 copie
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Collaboratore — 315 copie
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004) — Collaboratore — 270 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Collaboratore — 264 copie
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (2011) — Collaboratore — 206 copie
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Four: Nebula Winners 1970-1974 (1986) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (1999) — Collaboratore — 118 copie
Gateways: A Feast of Great New Science Fiction Honoring Grand Master Frederik Pohl (2010) — Collaboratore — 95 copie
Nebula Awards 24: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1988 (1988) — Collaboratore — 58 copie
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Collaboratore — 45 copie
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
The Wizard Knight Companion: A Lexicon for Gene Wolfe's The Knight and The Wizard (2009) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 30 copie
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
Nebula Awards 20: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984 (1985) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology (1994) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1996, Vol. 91, No. 4 & 5 (1996) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1981, Vol. 61, No. 4 (1981) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2007, Vol. 112, No. 4 (2007) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 20, No. 10 & 11 [October/November 1996] (1996) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1985, Vol. 68, No. 6 (1985) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 2004, Vol. 107, Nos. 4 & 5 (2004) — Autore — 13 copie
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 12 [December 1985] (1905) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1983, Vol. 64, No. 4 (1983) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 6 [June 1982] (1982) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1983, Vol. 64, No. 6 (1983) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Worlds of If Science Fiction 153, March/April 1971 (Vol. 20, No. 10) (1971) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
The far side of time, thirteen original stories;: A science fiction anthology (1974) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas (Insights) (1992) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Best of the Rest 4 — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Wolfe, Gene Rodman
- Data di nascita
- 1931-05-07
- Data di morte
- 2019-04-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Peoria, Illinois, USA
- Causa della morte
- cardiovascular disease
- Luogo di residenza
- Barrington, Illinois, USA
- Istruzione
- Texas A&M University
University of Houston - Attività lavorative
- mechanical engineer
editor
novelist
short-story writer - Organizzazioni
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Catholic Church
Plant Engineering, Editor
Proctor & Gamble, Engineer - Premi e riconoscimenti
- World Fantasy Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1996)
SF Hall Of Fame (2007)
Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (1989)
SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (2012)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Fuller Award (2012)
SFWA Grand Master (2013) - Breve biografia
- Fought in Korean War. Formerly an industrial engineer, he was on the design team that developed the manufacturing process for the Pringle potato chip - his responsibility was the machine that cooks them. Also editor of the engineering trade journal Plant Engineering.
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Il Soldato dell'Arete' inizia là dove era finito il precedente volume del Ciclo, , e Latro, riunitosi alla sua giovane schiava lo, viene da questa condotto in Tessaglia per sfuggire a Pasicrate, il Comandante degli Spartani, che lo vuole uccidere.
Le avventure sono molteplici ed accattivanti, ed i personaggi sono diversi ed assai singolari. Il tutto nel raffinato stile letterario di Wolfe, uno dei maestri del fantastico contemporaneo. Gene Wolfe ha scritto anche un terzo volume su Latro, “Soldier of Sidon” (rimasto purtroppo inedito in Italia).… (altro)